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104-10303-1000

025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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MEMORANDUM }OR; ‘Deputy Director for Seicnee & Technology
SUBIECT | + ISD Support to Other Agencies

1. Technical Services Division's charter (CSI 1-8) requires”
that it provide technical assietance to both CLA operations and
other activities as inay be directed by the Daputy ‘Director for

Operations.

2. Over the years the chief non-CIA recipients of this
support have been the Department of Defense, the Federal.
Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous
Drugs, Immigration and Natucalization Service, Department
of State, United States Postal Sarvice, Secret Service, Agency .*:
for International | Development, and the White House. 7

(wntie varying widely among the different recipients, thes
seuvices have includ: na’: straining and materials, and in a few ine x
stances participation in*the fields of audio and visual surveillance; .
secret writing and relited communications, personal protection, |),
alias documentation and: questioned document examination, disguise,
concealment devices,’ electronic beaconry, illicit narcotics detec-
tion, and counter- ~sabotage/terrorism.] hos ae

In most instances requirements for this support are toy
‘raceived by TSD through higher echelons (Office of the Director’ | ol
or Deputy Di rector for Operations). Unless the service involved: i
is a trivial or continuing one, the request is referred to the 4
Foreign Intelligence Staff Departmental Coordination Group for |
coordination and approval at the appropriate Agency levels. Es
Approval within TSD by the Chief of Operations or Development’.
and Engineering and the: ‘Chief of TSD or his Deputy also i is re-:

qui red~

5. The attachment lists the primary: services 2g
the organizations named in Paragraph | two. .


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aly eeorgonal dootifty locumauntatia
g to iwo broad criteria: type of |
higher? “and type of Aentna: nvatation requasiod, A reunest |
for deniad.avca documentation feem a DDO Avoa Division ts u
hoaored after proper validation. Free world davuscentsuon
may recuice some extra coordination however. <A Swiss
padagort sould not be issued withont ceordisation with the HOR
Wias Exanch; an Trish passport weeld not te lasuied for use
anywhere in the Comraonwealth area without the approval of
the British Desk; Hong Kong documentation is net to be used in
Hoag Kong unless approved by Hong Kong Chief of Station?)
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cr Unless ordered otherwise by higher Agency au! Nority,
nours> “documentation is issued by TSD Headquarters without
prior coordination with the Office of Security. and the Central.

Cover-Staff.. TSDIRe gional Bases. require at least the valida~

tion. of G.S> documentation requests by the COS, or his
designated representative, of the requesting Station. Because

it could be used:in o¢der to obtain/a_u. S. passport in ‘alias, no.

U:S. Birth Certificate ts issued without approval of the DDO - 2Y

via-Céntral Cover-Staff...Backstopped major credit lit cards/are
issued by Office of Security, not. TSD.

8. Provision. of| of ged)documentation to non-DDO- requeateres
“whether, they be “CIA- or-other Ageéficy requesters, always | ‘requires.
-({Support to the military for instance>
epartmental Coordination Group
at Headquarters: or by the COS overseas having responsibility’ for
96 coordination of the operation. BNDD requests are coordinated
¥7f with DDO/NARCOG. Requests for documentation of Immigration -
and Naturalization Service is coordinated via the Alien Affairs -

9, [Kothentication items are issuéd ona loan basis and must “
be returned to TSD or accounted for. After any documentation has |
been issued, TSD retains photographs and records of such support ||
until the documentation has been returned to TSD. If the material
is not returned after a reasonable time, the requester is reminded
of the outstanding documentation. ] :


